Tyler Riddle writes:
I am just starting to learn C++ and the research I've done so far says
I should get a C++ mentor to help get a really strong understanding of
OO design. Would anyone here be willing to mentor or does this entire
group act as a mentor? Is it appropriate to run ideas and ask for
help/feedback?
A mentor sounds like a good idea. I would guess that well over half of the
questions you ask here will get the response that the question is off topic.
Helping people is way way down the food chain of why most of the regulars
post here; and also on similar groups. But I can't imagine a mentoring
relationship that is conducted by a keyboard. You need someone you can talk
to, at least on the telephone, and better yet in front of a blackboard. I
suggest posting your location, I think it's unlikely you will make a
connection but there is some *slight* chance that someone in a similar time
zone might offer some help.
A college course, providing you are lucky enough to get a good instructor,
is the best (easiest) way to learn. The object of such a course is to
write programs that actual run on a real computer; the major goal here is a
syntactically correct C++ program. The second goal is a very small subset
of the first goal.
